SPD returning?

[SirBoobAlot]

Gave birth in November, was suffering with SPD for the last four months (ish). It seemed to go away almost instantly after I gave birth.

However, the last few days, I am in a lot of pain again. My whole pelvic area, my hips, my back and my legs are painful. Is it possible for SPD to come back after going away, and this long after giving birth? I had a straight forward delivery, no tears, and DS was 7lb9oz, in case that is related at all.

Any suggestions / advice / experiences?

TIA.

Ditto. I gave birth in December, elective c/s for 3 reasons, but severe SPD was one of them. I was on crutches from 20 weeks. I felt quite smug that it disappeared immediately after birth but from about month 4 post pg, it has been niggling and getting worse each month. DC3 is now 8 months old and it is really causing me a few problems. I know I should go back to GP for referral for physio or something - but then I wonder really what they can do as there wasn't much they did in pg. Plus I do notice that it is particularly bad mid-cycle just pre and during period.

Am hoping someone with experience can come here and post for us both!!

I was just reading the other post on here re SPD and my heart goes out to everyone.
I was given crutches from about 24 weeks and a support band, but nothing helped me except seeing a chiropractor who informed me that my pubic bone was getting stuck or overlapping at the front, this is when the pain would be the worst. He was re-aligning it for me. However fast forward to 6 months PP and I still have problems - they never did go away, but they are better. I have been seeing an NHS maternity physio who has been great, realigning my hips and helping my Sacrio-iliac joints. However, she did warn me that it would take this time or longer to start feeling better.
I can see a noteable difference now, ie I can almost lie on one side for more than 2 minutes. I note that I also suffer from stiffness in my fingers and more pain mid cycle and also during my period.
I have also been given exercises to bring my tummy muscles which split 8 fingerwidths apart, back to centre and to close them. I was told that these also support the pelvis - so the more I do these, perhaps getting the muscle tone back actually is helping to keep my pelvis in alignment? Don't know. The exercises can be found on the following site
www.maternalfitness.com/diastasis.html
Really the only thing I can say is not to do things that make it worse, for me this is
1.walking - too fast or too much
2.trying to sleep on my side, or even roll over in bed

1. too much lifting of baby
2. going upstairs normally - I have to take one step up i.e right foot up, left foot on same step, then move up a step
3. getting into the car with one leg first - I have to get a carrier bag on the seat, put bum down on seat (legs still both outside the car with feet on the ground), then slowly swivel my legs in together (keeping knees together)
4. Sit down to put pants/shoes/trousers on and never ever stand on one leg or try to move things or open doors with my feet.

HTH someone out there. I have also joined the scottish charity pelvic instability network.

meant to say that because I have been told that this is hormones which soften and affect the ligaments that 'perhaps' for those who still have a lot of problems, and I have met one lady who confirmed that this actually happened to her: her pubis symphysis joint at the front had knitted itself together out of alignment, and she was still in awful pain. ? Just a thought, so it would be worth a visit to perhaps a chiropractor or physio to see if they can help, and maybe now hormones might be more settled there is a better chance of the body 'staying' put where it should be. This is why I went to a chiro during pregnancy, but he could only offer relief and not a solution - only now is my body staying a bit more where it should.
Love to everyone :)

This happened to me with ds. About five months after his birth I upped my walking routine, and it all kicked in again. But with the added bonus of my back popping out at regular intervals.

I ended up being referred to a brilliant physio who used combined treatment of manipulation, massage, acupunture and many pilates style exercises, and returned close to my original form. She said that breastfeeding (due to hormones) was making my spine hypermobile.

I greatly improved through her treatment, though I wasn't prepared to stop breastfeeding. When I began treatment, I could barely walk. When i stopped breastfeeding when my ds was 2 years old, I returned to 100%.